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The Trademark Problem: Casualty Insurance’s Dirty Little Secret
It has always been surprising to me that trademark issues receive so little attention in the insurance community. It's almost as if trademark claims are the dirty little secret of casualty insurance, ...
Five Myths About Predictive Analytics You Can’t Afford to Believe
Predictive analytics has a relatively long history in the P/C insurance industry. From the early 1990s, when early adopters began to use predictive modeling for rating and underwriting, to more ...Insurance Salesman By Choice: PHLY’s Robert O’Leary
For Robert O'Leary, the new CEO of Philadelphia Insurance Company, the days when he peeled himself out of the driver's seat of an unairconditioned car to sell casualty insurance policies around ...
Using Big Data To Improve Homeowners Insurance Products
There is no doubt that so-called Big Data is changing the way many companies do business. The volume of information being generated by web activity is growing exponentially and the technology has ...
How Brains Of Effective Leaders Are Wired
Effective leaders' brains may be physically "wired" to lead, offering the promise of more precise identification and training, according to studies of U.S. Army officers published by the American ...
Breaking Convention
Did the father sit in candlelight and silence? Or did Jean rant and sob? Did he blame himself or his son …after all he had done for him? We shall never know how Monsieur Poquelin greeted abject ...
O’Leary Set To Lead PHLY’s High Achievers & Loyal Soldiers
Although the name of the senior-most officer of Philadelphia Insurance is changing, just about everything else is going to stay the same at the 51-year old specialty insurance company, according to ...
Thatcher’s Legacy: Citadel of Finance Atop Once-Derelict London Docks
Where a maze of derelict warehouses and old cranes once testified to Britain's decline, glass skyscrapers teeming with traders now dominate London's docks, a metaphor - for good and ill - for ...